Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-06
ALCOHOL AS A HOUSEHOLD
REMEDY.
KATE G. BUSHNELL, NJ. D.
Concluded

| Concluded.
Coz. SEc.AI am pleased that our oood
doctor refrains from the description Of
many drugs, for do believe that more
than one household is injured by the toe
free use of drugs for every little ailment
MOTHER BIT seems to me that g
large share of the abuse of drugs grows
ont of a wrong idea in training children
When my children were little, although
I am sure / was as sympathetic as any
mother could be, thought it unwise to
express too much sympathy for the trivial
discOmforts and pains they experienced
My children didn't run to me to have a
bruised finger kissed, nor cry for me to
pick them up when they fell; and If they
cnt their. fingers they often hunted about
and found a. rag and string and bandaged
up their own wounds. So they learned
to pay but little attention to the trivial
ailments, and grew rather to forget than
to nurse them.
TREAS. B. has the right idea,
I think. Children whose little ailments
are too much INDUCED, grow to indulge
them inordinately themselves, and thus
become more or less dependent upon the
use of drugs in their daily lives.
VICE PRES. Some one has said that
the healthiest man living is the one who
thinks least about his body. No one can
hunt for pains and aches without finding
them in his own body. And the one who
finds these aches and begins to apply
remedies Unfortunately, will use one
drug after another, until, most likely, at
last he learns the use Of alcoholic liquor.
After that he changes his remedy no
more; he is fully suited with the liquor,
because it alone satisfies the diseased
appetite it creates, and the man goes to
an untimely drunkard's grave.
SUPT. HEREDITY.-Let me add a word
here on the question of why people show
such a tendency to look upon alcohol as a
valuable remedy. Ihave known excellent
people, total abstainers, who were never
and who never intended doing SO. Rea-
son and education had taught them
better, but still there would be found
lurking within them secret prejudice in
favor of the drug. And they actually
considered themselves sort Of martyrs to
principle in that they never used this
remedy and never intended to. Now, 1
believe that there is really inherited, by
many, decided prejudice in favor of
alcohol as remedy, and better training
than their forefathers had scarcely eradi-
Gates this Unborn but false prejudice in
favor of drug that is well-nigh useless.
SUPT. JUVENILE WoRK.-The children
Of household in which liquor is kept
for cases of sickness only" are exposed
TO peculiar danger. Too often the little
one climbs to the top of the closet to see
what is there, and laying hold of the bot
lie after reading its label, has a curiosity
70 find out what wine tastes like. Again
and again he returns to taste, until a
fearful habit is formed that wrecks bis
life and destroys the happiness of the
home.
SUPT. HYaIENE.-By proper attention
20 the laws of health many occasions for
he use of drugs could be avoided. But
[ really fear there are some who count
IN drugs doing for their health what
careful habits of living should do. I |
nope you will pardon the allusion, but to
Illustrate my point wish to remind you
If the Irishman's conversation with his
physician. "Faith, DOCTOR" said Pat, 81
nave money an won't We please order me
! medicine instid of bath?" It is too |
true that we get into the shift
ess habit of depending upon drugs to
supply the lack of careful hygienic
habits.
SUPT. EvANaELIsTIC WoRK.-How
'low we are to comprehend the meaning
Ind force of these passages in our Script
Ire lesson, "Know We not that ye are the
emple of God, and that the Spirit of God
lwelleth in you?" And eff any man
lestroy the temple of God,'' either by
careless negligence or willful imprudence,
Him shall God destroy" To be need
essly sick. then, is to be sinfully sick"
PREs.-We have quite consumed all
'ur time and must bring the meeting to
! close. I hope the hour has been a
profitable one to all. Let us now go
orth to exercise ourselves in every good
way suggested by our pleasant counsel
ogether.
HYMN.-TO THE WORK!
10. II. No. 145.)
% the work! To the work! we are servants of God,
et US follow the path that our Master has trod,